What is Design Advisory?

Our Design Advisory services focus on enhancing the sustainability and performance of your project to align with voluntary codes based on the latest Environmentally Sustainable Design practices. Our deep knowledge and expertise in ESD principles help to optimise your project, ensuring highly recognised sustainable certification.

Green Star Consulting

We provide informal Green Star consulting to help get your project on the right track for certification. We have several Green Star Accredited Professionals (GSAPs) in our team who can assist you in understanding the specific Green Star tool requirements for your project, including the associated fees for registering the project with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and the fee for SUHO to formally manage the assessment process to certification.

Green Star Assessments

Our Green Star Accredited Professionals (GSAPs) formally assess developments for Green Star certification by guiding the project team through the certification process, ensuring sustainable practices are integrated into the design and construction. They provide advice in preparing, and assist with submitting documentation to demonstrate compliance with Green Star benchmarks, while also advising on strategies to maximise the project's rating through sustainable initiatives. Throughout each project, our GSAPs ensure adherence to Green Star standards, liaise with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), and address any feedback, playing key roles in securing the certification and enhancing each development’s sustainability credentials.

Strategies and Methodologies

SUHO continues to work with previous iterations of Green Star Certification Tools, including the different versions of 'Design and As-Built'. However, the most recent Green Star Tool, 'Buildings v1', was launched on October 29, 2020, and provides a contemporary best practice sustainability framework for new and refurbished building projects.

Green Star 'Buildings' is organised into eight sustainability categories: Responsible, Healthy, Resilient, Positive, Places, People, Nature, and Leadership.

Each category comprises several credits which define a clear outcome that the project must meet. There are points available under each credit and projects are awarded points once the credit outcomes are demonstrated through documentary evidence.

Proven Results with SUHO

SUHO has successfully guided numerous projects through the Green Star certification process, ensuring an advanced understanding of the ESD credits required and advice on how to successfully achieve compliance. Our expertise in design advisory helps you deliver projects that meet the highest sustainability benchmarks.

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Maximise the sustainability of your project with SUHO’s expert design advisory services. Contact us today to learn how we can tailor our solutions to your needs.